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Relevant Health Care Journal Articles

1995 "What Helps? Emotional Support for Survival after a Heart Attack" from American Heart Association's 22nd Science Writers Forum #32;, Santa Barbara, CA January 15-18, 1995. Lisa F. Berkman, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (203) 785-2891.

1995 "Study finds depression health risk to elderly" September 6, 1995 - from Star Tribune - from New York Times Stroke Study, Dr. Eleanor Simonsick, epidemiologist at the National Institute on Aging - to be published in Psychosomatic Medicine.

1995 "Health Risks & the Impact" Milliman and Robertson, health actuaries - (414) 784-2250 - to buy the 2 studies:

  • 1987 Study - Health Risks and Behavior - The Impact on Medical Costs
  • 1995 Study - Health Risks and the Impact

See brief mention in Business Week 4/10/95, pg. 103 See also write up in The Wall Street Journal, 4/14/87 "Study Lays Groundwork for Tying Health Costs to Workers' Behavior" See also write up by David R. Anderson, VP Operations of StayWell Health Management Systems, Inc., titled "Justifying Your Wellness Investment" including findings by corporations of medical cost savings in their wellness programs.

1994 "Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of Psychosocial Interventions in Health Care" from Pennsylvania Medicine, November, 1994 (11) pp. 14-16 Michael J. Asken, PhD, David Florence, MD, MPH, James Walker, MD, Lee Miller, MD

1994 "Psychiatric morbidity in spouses of patients in rehabilitation after coronary-artery-bypass surgery" from The Lancet (British Medical Journal) Vol. 344; pg. 338, 7/30/94 Edinburg, Scotland (Royal Edinburgh #38; Astley Ainsley Hospitals) Doctors: Stewart C. Vonway, Carol Skelton, Aine O'Roureke, Lorna Cay, Brian Pentland

1994 "Assessing Depression" J Cardiopulmonary Rehabil. 1994;14:376-377, C. Barr Taylor, MD, and Kathy Berra, BSN. Depts. of Psychiatry and Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine

1994 "Pessimism Can Kill, Heart Study Finds", from results of study presented at Society of Behavioral Medicine in Rockville, Maryland as reported in Mpls. Star Tribune, April, 1994 - from AP (Boston) Doctor: Daniel Mark, MD, Duke University

1994 "Quality of Life and Recovery After Cardiac Surgery" from Psychosomatic Medicine, 56:213-215, James A. Blumenthal, PhD, Daniel B. Mark, MD, MPH (919) 286-8775 Box 3119, Behavioral Medicine Laboratory, Duke University Medical Center (919) 684-3828 lab

1993 "Depression Following Myocardial Infarction (impact on 6-Month Survival)" from Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Vol. 270, #15, pp. 1819-25, 10/20/93. Montreal, Canada (Research Institute - Montreal Heart Institute, McGill University, and the University of Montreal.) Nancy Frasure-Smith, Ph.D., Francois Lesperance, MD, Mario Talajic, MD Editorial: p. 1860 Dr. Williams, Duke University Medical Center (Behavioral Med. Research Ctr.); Dr. Chesney, University of California @ San Francisco, (prevention Sciences Group)

1990 "Measuring Quality of Life in Cardiac Spouses" from Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 43, No.5, pp. 481-87. Lori S. Ebbesen, Gordon H. Guyatt, Neil McCartney & Neil B. Oldridge Depts. of Physical Education and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1.


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